Jesper Kyd, (pronounced "Yesper Kied"), born in 1972, Copenhagen, Denmark, is a music composer most notably composing for video games such as the Hitman series, Freedom Fighters, Kane and Lynch: Dead Men, Assassin's Creed and Borderlands.
He started out in the mid-eighties by making music on the C64 computer, and made music for many Demo-groups on the C64 and later the Amiga before he started making game music.
His official website can be found here for an entire list of credits. Read more on Last.fm